Birthday:
05-16-1882
Deathday:
08-23-1963 (81 years)
Birthplace:
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography
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Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour, 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett.
She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium.
She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans.
She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena, California after a long illness.
Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour, 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett.
She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium.
She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans.
She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena, California after a long illness.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Act like Hans' Wife
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
His Honor the Mayor
Act like His Wife
event1930
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Charles Murray is running for mayor. Opponent Eddie Baker has a young woman go into his shoe shop and, while changing stockings, say things that will alienate the women voters; Baker tells her it's a practical joke, and he'll get her boy friend out of jail.
The Spider Woman
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1943 star_border 6.9
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Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
The Ghosts
Act like Chubby's Mama
event1930
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Juanito gets locked out of his house in the middle of a windy night. Spanish language version of When the Wind Blows (1930)
Radio Patrol
Act like Landlady (uncredited)
event1932
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A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Dressed to Kill
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1946 star_border 6.5
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A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Double Wedding
Act like Mrs. Keough
event1937 star_border 6.5
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A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
The Body Snatcher
Act like Mary McBride (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7
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Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
It Started with Eve
Act like Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.1
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A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
The Whirlwind
Act like Mrs. Curtis
event1933
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After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sheriff Tate Hurley who was his chief accuser. The hatred between the two men was not extinguished, and they first compete in a wrestling match.
The Pearl of Death
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1944 star_border 7.1
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The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
Sealed Lips
Act like Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
The Woman in Green
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1945 star_border 6.4
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Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Subway Express
Act like Mrs. Delaney
event1931
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Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
The Invisible Man Returns
Act like Cookie (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.2
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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
The Invisible Woman
Act like Mrs. Bates
event1940 star_border 5.7
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Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
Naughty Nanette
Act like Mrs. Rooney
event1927
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The Jazz Age rages in this comedy film starring Viola Dana as the madcap title character madly dashing through a series of adventures.
Little Giant
Act like Ma Miller
event1946 star_border 5.3
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Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.
Whispering Footsteps
Act like Ma Murphy
event1943 star_border 5.3
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An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.
The Little Minister
Act like Nanny
event1934 star_border 5.9
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The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
When the Wind Blows
Act like Chubby's Mother (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 6.1
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Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
The Woman Condemned
Act like Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 4.5
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When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
The Black Camel
Act like Mrs. MacMasters
event1931 star_border 6
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Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
Shadows Over Chinatown
Act like Mrs. Conover
event1946 star_border 5.7
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In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1939 star_border 6.9
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Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…
The Invisible Wall
Act like Mrs. Bledsoe
event1947 star_border 5.4
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A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Act like Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 4
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.
Pot o' Gold
Act like Mom McCorkle
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Law of the Badlands
event1945
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A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
Secret Command
Act like Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.8
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Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
Laughing Irish Eyes
Act like Mrs. O'Keefe
event1936
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An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
The Impatient Maiden
Act like Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
event1932
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A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
The Power and the Glory
Act like Nurse (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.9
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A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
The Night of Nights
Act like 1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)
event1939
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A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
Exposed
Act like Housekeeper
event1947 star_border 5.8
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A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
Angels' Alley
Act like Mrs. Mamie Mahoney
event1948 star_border 4
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Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Nature in the Wrong
Act like Mrs. Clancy
event1933
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Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
When the Daltons Rode
Act like Ma Dalton
event1940 star_border 6
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Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
Double Cross
Act like Mrs. Murray
event1941 star_border 4.8
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A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
Divorce
Act like Ellen
event1945 star_border 5
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A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Wild Girl
Act like Washerwoman (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
The Saturday Night Kid
Act like Reducing customer (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 4.4
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Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
Is Everybody Happy?
Act like Neighbor (uncredited)
event1929
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It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
Cross Streets
Act like Sonny's Mother
event1934 star_border 5.8
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A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
Sweepings
Act like Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
Hell's Heroes
Act like Choir Member (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 6.9
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Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Maid (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.4
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The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Riot Squad
Act like Mrs. McGonigle
event1941
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Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
The Last Ride
Act like Mrs. Mary Kelly
event1944 star_border 6.2
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A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.
The Irish in Us
Act like Ma O'Hara
event1935 star_border 7.7
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A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
The Ol' Gray Hoss
Act like First taxi passenger
event1928 star_border 6
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This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.
Friend Indeed
Act like Housekeeper
event1937
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Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and now has to depend upon the dog to lead him in his daily rounds. 'Sparky" was the dog who was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission passing a special ruling allowing guide-dogs to travel first-class in Pullman cars to accompany their blind partner, and not as animals confined to the baggage car. Smith shows how 'Sparky' went to Washington D. C. with his master and helped sell the change to the legislators.
Nobody's Children
Act like Mary
event1940
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A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage.
Lady Behave!
Act like Cook
event1937 star_border 5.2
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It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
$10 Raise
Act like Landlady (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 8
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A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
Borrowed Hero
Act like Mrs. Riley
event1941 star_border 4
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A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Deputy Marshal
Act like Mrs. Lance
event1949 star_border 6.8
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A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
Meet the Boy Friend
Act like Mrs. Grimes
event1937 star_border 6
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A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
Little Miss Nobody
Act like Mrs. Biddle
event1936 star_border 6
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A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
Two Tickets to London
Act like Mrs. Tinkle
event1943 star_border 6
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Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1939 star_border 7.1
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On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
Appointment for Love
Act like Martha
event1941 star_border 5.2
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Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
Kitty Foyle
Act like Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Fort Apache
Act like Ma (barmaid)
event1948 star_border 7
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Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
Sarong Girl
Act like Mattie
event1943
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A dancer in a girlie show plots revenge when a judge orders her show closed.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Act like Landlady (uncredited)
event1939
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
The Brat
Act like Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.6
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A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Smart Guy
Act like Maggie
event1943 star_border 5
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A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
City Streets
Act like Mrs. Devlin
event1938
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When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
Beauty Parlor
Act like Landlady
event1932 star_border 5
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Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
Ladies They Talk About
Act like Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.1
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A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
The Long Night
Act like Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.8
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City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
Men Must Fight
Act like Pacifist Audience Member
event1933 star_border 5.7
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Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.
Follow the Leader
event1944 star_border 3.5
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Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this. Danny, another East Side kid, is in jail because a large amount of medical supplies have been stolen from the warehouse where he works. Muggs see Spider, a new member of the gang, flashing a large amount of money around, and Muggs shrewdly turns toughie, boasting that he has a dishonorable discharge because of thievery. This leads Spider to confide in Muggs that he is the one who has been aiding in the theft of supplies from the warehouse, and he gets paid for the loot by Larry, operator of a nightclub where Muggs' sister, Milly, is an entertainer. Fingers, a henchman for Larry, kills Spider when he learns that Muggs has been let in on the operation. The police then suspect Muggs of killing Spider.
Blonde Venus
Act like Landlady (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.8
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In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Shamrock Hill
Act like Grandma Rogan
event1949 star_border 1
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A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on it.
Mary of Scotland
Act like Nurse
event1936 star_border 6.3
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The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Stage Struck
Act like Mrs. Cassidy
event1936 star_border 4
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A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1943 star_border 6.8
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During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1943 star_border 6.7
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In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1942 star_border 6.3
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In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Act like Mrs. Hudson
event1942 star_border 6.5
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England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defense Committee call in Sherlock Holmes.
You Can't Have Everything
Act like YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
The Expert
Act like Neighbor
event1932 star_border 6.3
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An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
You're Only Young Once
Act like Mary's Mother (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Andy Hardy and his sister find romance during a family vacation in Catalina.
Blond Cheat
Act like Maggie (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
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Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Change of Heart
Act like Woman in Street
event1934 star_border 6.3
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Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
Tell No Tales
Act like Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Charlie Chan in London
Act like Prison Visitor (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.9
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Charlie Chan is sought out by Pamela Gray, a desperate young socialite whose brother Paul awaits execution for the murder of a weapons inventor. Pamela is convinced of his innocence.
The Defense Rests
Act like Scrub Woman
event1934 star_border 7
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A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
A House Divided
Act like Townswoman (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6.2
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A New England fisherman's second wife prefers his son.
The White Angel
Act like Nursing Applicant (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 8
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In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
The Man from Hell
Act like Mrs. Frank McCarrol
event1934 star_border 4.5
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A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
The Hour Before the Dawn
Act like Annie
event1944 star_border 5
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A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she needs to get information about so she can help in Hitler's planned invasion of England.
Wings of the Navy
Act like Irene's Housekeeper
event1939 star_border 6
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Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
Tail Spin
Act like Mrs. Lee
event1939 star_border 5.8
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Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
Broadway Serenade
Act like Annie (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Her Husband Lies
Act like Mrs. Jenks
event1937 star_border 6
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J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Woman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Act like Cleaning Woman
event1933 star_border 5.7
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Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?
Day-time Wife
Act like Scrubwoman
event1939 star_border 6.3
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When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Act like Mrs. Dudley
event1939 star_border 8
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A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
The Escape
Act like Neighbor
event1939 star_border 5.5
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An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Big Town Scandal
Act like Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5
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A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Kidnapped
Act like Mrs. MacDonald
event1938 star_border 4.7
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Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
The Dark Horse
Act like Mrs. Mahoney
event1946
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Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.
Sister Kenny
Act like Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.5
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An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
The Great O'Malley
Act like Mrs. O'Malley
event1937 star_border 6.7
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His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
The Judge Steps Out
Act like Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Here Comes Kelly
Act like Mrs. Kelly
event1943 star_border 1
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Cocky Kelly's girlfriend helps him straighten up enough to get a job as a process server.
Fly By Night
Act like Ma Prescott
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
Meet the Stewarts
Act like Mrs. Stewart
event1942 star_border 6
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A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
Hangman's House
Act like The Woman at Hogan's Hideout
event1928 star_border 6.3
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Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
Tucson
Act like Housemother (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6
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The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. Andy's father is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
Design for Living
Act like Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.2
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An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
Sentimental Journey
Act like Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.4
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An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
It Happened in Flatbush
Act like Mrs. Collins
event1942 star_border 4.8
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A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Blue, White, and Perfect
Act like Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.3
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In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Great Guy
Act like Mrs. Ogilvie
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
I Take This Oath
Act like Mrs. Eileen Hanagan
event1940 star_border 4.3
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The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
Brother Orchid
Act like Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.4
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When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Bombay Clipper
Act like Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Highway 13
Act like Aunt Myrt Lacy
event1948 star_border 5.7
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Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.
Mutiny on the Bounty
Act like Peddler (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.4
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Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
24 Hours
Act like Nurse
event1931 star_border 5.5
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A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
Go West
Act like Train Passenger
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
Dancers in the Dark
Act like Scrubwoman
event1932 star_border 4.8
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A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
Roses Are Red
Act like Cleaning Lady
event1947 star_border 5.5
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A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
The Plough and the Stars
Act like Woman at Barricades
event1936 star_border 5.6
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A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
Bonnie Scotland
Act like Mrs. Bickerdike
event1935 star_border 6.6
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Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
Captain Eddie
Act like Mrs. Westrom
event1945 star_border 6
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WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
The Matinee Idol
Act like Woman in Audience (uncredited)
event1928 star_border 6.3
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The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.
The Loudspeaker
Act like Landlady
event1934
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A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the process alienates everyone around him with his arrogance and egomania.
Code of the Streets
Act like Mrs. Flaherty
event1939 star_border 7
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Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
The Hoodlum Saint
Act like Trina
event1946 star_border 5.2
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A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Act like Mrs. Leathwaite
event1935 star_border 6
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The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.
Gateway
Act like Scottish Mother
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Waterfront Lady
Act like Mrs. O'Flaherty
event1935 star_border 5.5
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When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Saps at Sea
Act like Mrs. O'Riley
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
My Son, My Son!
Act like Mrs. Mulvaney
event1940 star_border 4.3
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A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
No, No, Nanette
Act like Gertrude, the Cook
event1940 star_border 6
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Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Racketeers of the Range
Act like Mary-Benson's Housekeeper
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.
Gentleman Jim
Act like Mrs. Casey (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.2
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As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
The Last Alarm
Act like Mrs. Hadley
event1940 star_border 4.6
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A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
Young People
Act like Old Woman
event1940 star_border 4.6
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Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
The Lady Consents
Act like Apple Lady
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Civilized wife doesn't protest when husband runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized.
Million Dollar Kid
Act like Mrs. McGinnis
event1944 star_border 6.4
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The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors.
Women Without Names
Act like Juror
event1940 star_border 4.8
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Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
The Mummy's Tomb
Act like Jane Banning
event1942 star_border 5.7
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A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
Murder at the Vanities
event1934 star_border 5.4
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Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
The Invisible Man
Act like Screaming Woman (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.5
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After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Act like Nora
event1948 star_border 6
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Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
Meet the Baron
Act like Washer Woman (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.3
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A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Skyscraper Souls
Act like Charwoman
event1932 star_border 5.6
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After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
Pilgrimage
event1933 star_border 6.7
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A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
The Plot Thickens
Act like Woman with Bag
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Ginger
Act like Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4.7
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Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
Captain Fury
Act like Mrs. Bailey
event1939 star_border 4.8
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An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
Doctor Bull
Act like Townswoman at Meeting
event1933 star_border 6.5
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In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Keep 'Em Slugging
Act like Mrs. Banning
event1943 star_border 5.5
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A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
The Racket Man
Act like Mom Benson
event1944 star_border 7
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A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
Haunted Trails
Act like Aunt Libby
event1949
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Singing cowboy Whip Wilson, the foreman on a cattle drive, quits his job to pursue five bank robbers who murdered his brother.
West of Wyoming
Act like Nora Jones
event1950 star_border 6
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The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up of the rang to homesteaders. Government agent Brown comes calling when Simon begins resorting to cold-blooded murder. The leading lady is Gail Davis, a few years shy of her Annie Oakley TV stardom. Surprisingly, West of Wyoming contains none of the comedy relief that had characterized earlier Johnny Mack Brown oaters.
Clues to Adventure
Act like Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6
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This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
Texas Cyclone
Act like Kate
event1932 star_border 4.2
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When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
Song o' My Heart
Act like Irish Woman
event1930 star_border 4.4
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Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
Share the Wealth
Act like Ma MacClyde
event1936 star_border 3
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A small town shoe clerk runs for mayor under a "Share the Wealth" platform but finds himself in trouble when he's the recipient of $50,000.
Madame X
Act like Nursemaid (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 6
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A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
Powder Town
Act like Mrs. Douglas
event1942 star_border 3.7
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Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Oh, for a Man!
Act like Stage Door Admirer with Violets
event1930 star_border 5.7
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Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
Unfinished Business
Act like Miss Brady
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.
Half Way to Shanghai
Act like Mrs. McIntyre
event1942
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A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
Off the Record
Act like Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Tear Gas Squad
Act like Mrs. Sullivan
event1940 star_border 4.8
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A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Public Deb No. 1
Act like Landlady
event1940 star_border 4.2
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When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Campus Confessions
Act like Mrs. Twill
event1938 star_border 4.2
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This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.
Roaring Ranch
Act like Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)
event1930
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Cowboy fights to keep his ranch after oil is discovered on it.
Strange Confession
Act like Mrs. O'Connor
event1945 star_border 6.8
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A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
70,000 Witnesses
Act like Scrubwoman (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 4.8
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College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Act like Libby, the Housekeeper
event1944 star_border 5.3
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Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After losing WW I, the German high command, with remarkable foresight, prepares for the next war by planting a spy in the British Admiralty. Edgar Barrier plays the dual role of the German spy and his British twin brother. When one twin is killed, the other assumes his identity. The question: is the surviving brother the "good" one or the bad? It is up to C. Aubrey Smith, cast as Scotland Yard inspector Sir Christopher Belt, to sort out the mystery. Though it owes a great deal to the aforementioned Oppenheim yarn, Secrets of Scotland Yard is actually based on a novel by Denison Clift, who also wrote the screenplay.
Pack Up Your Troubles
Act like Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.7
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The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I. While in the Army, the pair befriend a man named Eddie Smith, who is killed by the enemy during a battle. After the war is over, Stan and Ollie venture to New York City, where they begin a quest to reunite Eddie's little daughter with her rightful family. The task proves both monumental and problematic as the boys discover just how many people in New York have the last name Smith.
The Home Maker
Act like Mrs. Hennessy
event1925
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A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of "househusband" enjoyable--until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.
Dr. Broadway
Act like Broadway Carrie
event1942 star_border 5
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A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Act like Mrs. O'Leary
event1939 star_border 2
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Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
See My Lawyer
Act like Mrs. Fillmore
event1945 star_border 6
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Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclub patrons… a ploy that soon has them facing multiple lawsuits… to the delight of three struggling attorneys, Charlie Rodman, Bettty Wilson and Arthur Lane.
She Married a Cop
Act like Ma Duffy
event1939 star_border 5
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This comedy is set in New York and centers upon a singing Irish cop who causes quite a sensation among two producers when he sings at the annual Policeman's Ball. For a long time, they have been looking for a voice for their new cartoon feature, "Paddy the Pig," and the cop is just perfect. The policeman is tickled pink at the prospect of being a star and begins telling all his friends about his good fortune (he has no idea what they plan to do with his voice). Eventually he ends up marrying one of the producers, who still hasn't told him the truth. Suddenly the night of the big premiere finally arrives and all of the policeman's old friends and colleagues are there. As it begins, the policeman is appalled and humiliated to see that he has been mocked and has become a laughing stock. He immediately spurns his new wife and goes back to the police force. Time passes, and fortunately, the two reunite and settle their differences.
Flight from Destiny
Act like Martha
event1941 star_border 5.2
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After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
In Fast Company
Act like Mrs. Cassidy
event1946 star_border 6.3
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The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.
Baby Take a Bow
Act like Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.5
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Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
Rulers of the Sea
Act like Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Hollywood Canteen
Act like Hostess (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7.3
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Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Waterloo Bridge
Act like Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7
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In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.
One More River
Act like Cook (Uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.3
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A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Manhattan Melodrama
Act like Boat Passenger (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
After the Thin Man
Act like Rose (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.3
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Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
My Woman
Act like Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 3.4
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A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
Kitty
Act like Nanny
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Anybody's Woman
Act like Maid
event1930 star_border 5.9
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A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
The File on Thelma Jordon
Act like Charwoman (Uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.5
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Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Our Daily Bread
Act like Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.8
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John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
She Done Him Wrong
Act like Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Mr. Soft Touch
Act like Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Mannequin
Act like Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6
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Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Possessed
Act like Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7.1
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Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Black Paradise
Act like Mrs. Murphy
event1926 star_border 4
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In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
Call Her Savage
Act like Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.8
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A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
A Damsel in Distress
Act like Cook (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.4
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Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.
Beloved
Act like Mrs. O'Leary
event1934
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Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Kidnapped
Act like Scottish Woman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.5
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In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
Queen of the Mob
Act like Tenement Landlady
event1940 star_border 4.5
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Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Act like Mrs. Scott
event1942 star_border 5.1
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Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Act like Scrubwoman (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.5
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When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
Forgotten Faces
Act like Mrs. O'Leary
event1936
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Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife, Cleo with another man. Harry shoots him and takes his 18 month old daughter, Sally to best friend, Sgt. Donovan to find her a good home. Harry turns himself in and gets life in prison. 17 years pass, Cleo is on the brinks of losing her job as a burlesque dancer. Cleo decides to blackmail the McBrides (Sally's devoted adoptive parents). Harry discovers this and promises his warden that while on parole he will protect Sally. Harry trades places with the McBride's butler. While working, Harry discovers a letter addressed to the McBrides from Cleo asking to meet with her. Harry meets with Cleo instead and they begin to fight...
Vagabond Lady
Act like Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.2
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Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Whom the Gods Destroy
Act like Newfoundlander
event1934 star_border 5.5
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Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Dynamite
Act like Neighbor at Store
event1929 star_border 6.3
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Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
The Cisco Kid
Act like Mary O'Toole (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho. Cisco and Pancho were technically desperados, wanted for unspecified crimes, but instead viewed by the poor as Robin Hood figures who assisted the downtrodden when law enforcement officers proved corrupt or unwilling to help. It was also the first television series to be filmed in color, although few viewers saw it in color until the 1960s.
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